Result - Funded ✅

Ideascale proposal - https://cardano.ideascale.com/c/idea/58804

Problem statement

Funded proposals need public facing progress updates to inform the community and help them audit their progress

Solution

Import existing updates and provide a progress update form for proposers to use where the updates will be attached to their proposal data

Overview

The community would benefit from having access to a history of update logs from the funded proposals to inform the community of the progress of any given funded proposal. The update logs should be convenient to find and attached to the existing proposal data and the data will also be open source with the other proposal data so that anyone can use it within other tools and projects.

For the progress updates the proposers should be able to confirm which of their roadmap items have been completed so the community is able to see a rough percentage of completion as well as any relevant technical or visual information that showcases and confirms that update. The PACE team have done update logs for the project on a weekly basis (https://cardanocommunity.notion.site/Project-updates-7f42f8cc1648444dbfe6e18b74ccc3b7) which provide a fairly accurate example of the type of updates that funded proposals could complete to provide more information for community auditing.

This proposal is a follow on from the following fund 5 proposals - improve proposal data (https://cardano.ideascale.com/a/dtd/Catalyst-Site-Improve-proposal-data/350686-48088) and project tracking proposal (https://cardano.ideascale.com/a/dtd/Catalyst-Site-Project-tracking/350699-48088). The enriched proposal data from these fund 5 proposals will be made available in an open source repository that anyone can fork and consume for their own projects. This proposal for proposal progress update logs will build on top of that data set and produce more data for that repository that will get updated through the projectcatalyst.org community site.

Creating public progress update logs for proposals will address the challenge by providing an easy way for proposers to provide information about the progress of their funded proposal progress that will make it more efficient and transparent when the community audits their proposals are being executed correctly. The data will be completely open source so anyone in the community will be able to consume or analyse the updates from proposers to distribute the auditing process.